By Any Other Name

The draft of today's post has been sitting derelict for a while and as I took my sweet time pretending to let the matter percolate, by way of digital morphogenetic field the topic seemed to have blown up somewhat. Time as good as any, then. One click on this blog's index would tell you that I'm one of them Bear bloggers who "litters" the Discovery page (and by extension, the new hot hangout space bubbles.town) with cryptic titles. As fond of in-jokes as I am, I have no doubt some of these make little sense to other people, if any, a stretch too far from the contents therein. When I first alighted on the blogosphere nary two decades ago, I wrote the way I had been raised: crafty, witty titles the likes of respectable print publications would employ. Titles have to be representative of its contents, yet inviting curiosity on its own. It's a showcase of an editor's mental acumen and linguistic mastery. This craft had weathered through turbulent times as cheap clickbaits took its place.…